68. Through the Zohar, G-d opened up a new wellspring that provides a profounder G-dly understanding, and faith, and trust.

From the talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

67. “...there will be a corresponding decrease in one’s anxiety about what others will say about the manner of one’s speech.”

69. “Repentance, too, must be done out of a firm trust in G-d, and not (G-d forbid) out of despair.”

By the Grace of G‑d
Lag BaOmer, 5720 (1960)

..Lag BaOmer 1 is also the day on which one of the most eminent disciples of R. Akiva, the holy sage2 R. Shimon ben Yochai,3 completed his mission in this world — to reveal the inner light and mystical secrets of the Torah. Through his holy work, the Zohar, G‑d opened up a new wellspring that provides a profounder G‑dly understanding, and faith, and trust — in order to revive and invigorate the Jewish people in a grievous era of exile.

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67. “...there will be a corresponding decrease in one’s anxiety about what others will say about the manner of one’s speech.”

69. “Repentance, too, must be done out of a firm trust in G-d, and not (G-d forbid) out of despair.”

Footnotes

Excerpt from a Yiddish letter that was addressed to the Women’s Organization (Agudas Nashim) of Brownsville and East New York, and that appears in Igros Kodesh, Vol. 19, p. 299.

In the original, tanna — i.e., one of the Sages cited in the Mishnah.

More commonly known as R. Shimon bar Yochai; both forms appear in the sources.

From the talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson